Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest movement depends crucially on how the government responds. We assume that government types are private information so that governments have an interest in building a reputation to...

This paper is devoted to studying the existence and uniqueness of global admissible conservative weak solution for periodic single-cycle pulse equation without any additional assumptions. Firstly, introducing a new set variables, we transform into an equivalent semilinear system. Using standard ordinary differential theory, system studied. Secondly, returning original coordinates, get equation....

Several methods to improve the parton-shower description of hard processes by an injection of matrix-element-based information have been presented over the years. In this article we study (re)weighting schemes for the first/hardest emission. One objective is to provide a consistent matching of the POWHEG next-to-leading order generator to the Pythia shower algorithms. Another is to correct the ...

In the paper by Fan (Inf Dim Anal Quant Probab Rel Topics 9:451–469, 2006), he introduced marginal selfsimilarity of non-commutative stochastic processes and proved that distributions selfsimilar with freely independent increments are selfdecomposable. this paper, we firstly introduce a new definition, stronger than Fan’s in general, via linear combinations processes, although two definitions e...

. LEOPARD syndrome 2 (LS-2) (OMIM #611554) is a rare, dominantly inherited genetic disorder affecting multiple organ systems. We report two unrelated females of different ages whose phenotype fits best in the category of LEOPARD syndrome, both with proven mutations in the RAF1 gene not previouslyreported in pediatric patients. In our 10-year-old patient, who was negative in the PTPN11 gene anal...

I examined the effects and problems of preventive care (the New Preventive Benefit) that was introduced to Japan's public long-term care insurance system in 2006, reviewing official publications of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and Japanese government as well as Japanese and English empirical studies on preventive care, using five pillars as follows. Firstly, I briefly introduced my...

Controversies about time discounting loom large in decisions about climate change. Prominently, a particularly controversial debate about time discounting in climate change decision-making has been conducted within climate economics, between the authors of Stern et al. (Stern review on the economics of climate change, 2006) and their critics (most prominently Dasgupta in Comments on the Stern r...

Lyzenga’s method is used widely for radiative transfer analysis because of its simplicity of application to cases of shallow-water coral reef ecosystems with limited information of water properties. WorldView-2 imagery has been used previously to study bottom-type identification in shallow-water coral reef habitats. However, this is the first time WorldView-2 imagery has been applied to bottom-...